Description of Problem: During installation to Pentium-4 system with AIC-7892b SCSI controller anaconda fails. The actual fall happens when anaconda goes to package selection stage of installation. Anaconda shows following errors: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 343, in ? intd.run (todo, test = test) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1165, in run rc = apply (step[1](), step [2]) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/textw/packages.py", line 11, in __call__ todo.getCompsList() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 468, in getCompsList self.comps = self.method.readComps(self.hdList) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 8, in readComps return ComponentSet(self.tree + '/RedHat/base/comps', hdlist) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 326, in __init__ self.readCompsFile(file,self.packages) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 299, in readCompsFile comp.addPackage(packages[l]) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 46, in __getitem__ return self.packages[item] KeyError: basesystem Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. take Dell Precision 530 system (I've this system, but I'm sure other systems with AIC-7892b have same problem) 2. begin with text mode installation of 6.2 3. follow standard procedure of installation; do not specify any parameters in "Linear mode..." Actual Results: installer hangs. Expected Results: Fix :) Additional Information: I believe this is problem of module aic7xxx which is loading during installation. I've tried with updated boot images from errata and got the same result. RedHat 7.1 works normal on the same machine. RH 7.0 installs without errors but after rebuuting falls to loop with initialisation SCSI. This is not a problem of my CD with RH 6.2 -- I've tried at least 10 CDs.
7.0 was the first release with Pentium 4 support. I'm afraid that you are pretty much stuck unless you can use a newer release.
I have the exact same problem, with RedHat 6.1, also on a Pentium 4 system. ... with IDE disks. I'm maintaning approx 50 linux machines with RedHat 6.1 kickstart ... and would like to run Redhat 6.1 on my new machines ... guess I just have to upgrade to an newer version, which means a lot of work ;-(
I've fixed the problem with SCSI. The responce I've got from RedHat support (sorry folks) stupid. This is not a Pentium-4 problem this is bad SCSI drivers problem. The Python scripts in my error message NOT RELATED to processor, they related to Package selection step (actually, the step before Package selection, when anaconda makes an initialisation of disks). The drivers in basic RedHat kernel from 2.2 branch are not supporting Ultra-160 SCSI interface (at least the support for this interface is bad). The solution for Dell Precision 530: get kernel-2.2.19 (I choose this version). from RedHat updates, now get patch by Justin Gibbs (at least 6.2.4; http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux/) and make changes to fit RedHat kernel (Justin's patch good for "clean" kernel but will fail on RedHat's). Then you should make new kernel RPMs and incorporate those RPMs to RedHat CD. Burn the CD and make installation (I'm assuming that you know how to build new RedHat instllation CD with new kernel).